FreeBSD-Wandboard r266864

I usually work on a Macbook, and I use keyless ssh with a cron job to do nightly backups.  It works very well.  However, I decided to try backups with Time Machine, using my FreeBSD-10 server as the host. The first step is to install netatalk3, and nss_mdns pkg install netatalk3 pkg install nss_mdns avahi…

I recently got a Beaglebone Black.   I was very excited; it’s similar to a Pi, but has 60 GPIO ports! Getting a serial console up on it was not quite a simple as I thought, since the BeagleBone uses FTDI.  Following the instructions here I installed the OS X serial driver for FTDI.   After plugging…

I’ve updated the u-boot bootloader for Crochet-FreeBSD Wandboard to 2014-10, from 2014-07.  The updated image is here, and the boot log is here.  

Building a FreeBSD kernel for Beaglebone is not terribly difficult.  Firstly, you need the FreeBSD-Current sources: svn co http://svn0.us-east.freebsd.org/base/head /src/FreeBSD/ Next, build the cross-development tools for FreeBSD: cd /src/FreeBSD/head make XDEV=arm XDEV_ARCH=armv6 xdev Then get Crochet-FreeBSD.  This is by far the easiest way to build a FreeBSD kernel for Beaglebone git clone git://github.com/kientzle/crochet-freebsd.git Once you…

In this blog article, I described a way to use Netatalk3 to do Time Machine backups on FreeBSD.  This approach worked well, but it had some problems: The Time Machine backups are in every user’s home dir.  That’s messy and there is the potential that they’ll accidentally delete the backup. If I put the backups…

I’ve been learning about FreeBSD kernel development, and discovering that, not surprisingly, it’s very, very slow to compile on a Raspberry Pi.  So, I decided to figure out how to compile the Pi kernel on a nice fast AMD-64. Firstly, get the kernel sources to a subdirectory under a non-root user profile: mkdir fbsd cd…